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She gave him a strange maternal grin.For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon’s mind: I am introuble here. This woman is not ...more

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The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows

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If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

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Moonlight flooded in the windows and silvered the room, turning it into a lagoon of dreams

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The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, ...more

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Resolution demands a sacrifice.

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You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.

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It was never for you, Annie, or all the other people out there who sign their letters “Your number-one fan.” The minute you start to write all those p...more

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Donald Trump is worse than any horror story I've written.

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If a book is not alive in the writer's mind, it is as dead as year-old horse-shit

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You need to take out the stuff that’s just sitting there and doing nothing. No slackers allowed! All meat, no filler!

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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

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‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you...more

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The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, ...more

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When you write, you want to get rid of the world, do you not? Of course you do. When you're writing, you're creating your own worlds.